Post by arkie on Apr 13, 2023 22:15:00 GMT -5
I am new here, but have owned my 24C "Camper's Companion" since I was a teenager. I got it for Christmas in 1984 or 5 IIRC, I remember my parents ordered it from JC Penney. It was my companion through my teenage years, shot many critters with it (I remember WalMart had loose shells on clearance for pennies and bought up whatever I could). Went to college, got married, started a life and I had left the gun with my parents. My dad had a machine shop and he kept it loaded and stuck in the corner. When he retired and they moved I didn't see it anymore and thought maybe he left it for the new owner of the shop. Lo and behold, I found it and it had some rust on the barrel and the pickling on the stock was peeling from where the wood was swelling up on the buttstock. I found an original take-off stock with the holes for the shotgun shells and 22 rounds on Ebay and it will get swapped out, I remember in my teens that there was a thin black coating on the barrels. I cleaned up the rust off the barrels and now the bluing is thin and splotchy. What was the original coating? Was it a paint? I really don't want to have it Cerakoted as it has to be blasted.
